Translation of "Caractère élargi " (French → English) :

Decision No 280/2004/EC should be replaced by a Regulation on account of the broader scope of Union law, the inclusion of additional categories of persons to which obligations are addressed, the more complex and highly technical nature of provisions introduced, the increased need for uniform rules applicable throughout the Union, and in order to facilitate implementation.

2. Points to the importance, when devising policies to support innovation, of focusing on innovation in the wider sense so as to include both the services sector, including tourism, as well as non-technological innovation, in other words innovation in the field of marketing and organisation; fully endorses the conclusions of the Competitiveness Council of 4 December 2006 calling on the Commission to draw up political guidelines concerning innovation relating to services and non-technological innovation and calls on the Commission to involve in particular organisations representing small enterprises and cottage industries in these deliberations;

2. Points to the importance, when devising policies to support innovation, of focusing on innovation in the wider sense so as to include both the services sector, including tourism, as well as non-technological innovation, in other words innovation in the field of marketing and organisation; fully endorses the conclusions of the Competitiveness Council of 5 December 2006 calling on the Commission to draw up political guidelines concerning innovation relating to services and non-technological innovation and calls on the Commission to involve in particular organisations representing small enterprises and cottage industries in these deliberations;

44. Emphasises the importance of cohesion policy in constructing measures which raise the economic performance of the future Member States and regions as well as existing regions which are disadvantaged because of lack of infrastructure, extreme remoteness, permanent geographical handicaps or industrial decline; reiterates Parliament's demand that cohesion policy be funded by 0.45% of EU GDP to ensure that its objectives are met in the enlarged Union;

2. Emphasises the importance of Cohesion policy in constructing measures which raise the economic performance of the future Member States and regions as well as existing regions which are disadvantaged because of lack of infrastructure, extreme remoteness, permanent geographical handicaps or industrial decline and reiterates Parliament's demand that cohesion policy be funded by 0.45% of EU GDP to ensure its objectives are to be met in the enlarged union;

44. Emphasises the importance of Cohesion policy in constructing measures which raise the economic performance of the future Member States and regions as well as existing regions which are disadvantaged because of lack of infrastructure, extreme remoteness, permanent geographical handicaps or industrial decline and reiterates Parliament's demand that cohesion policy be funded by 0.45% of EU GDP to ensure that its objectives are met in the enlarged Union;